MJKory_at_aol.com wrote: >I would like to get a used pickup to haul my kayak, but it seems like a pain to figure out an effective way to haul the boat on a PU. How do you do it? As Steve Cramer mentioned, a pickup topper. When I had an 89 Nissan PU as my kayak rig, I had an aluminum topper ($150 used), and welded a rack for it. But the "artificial raingutters" will work on an aluminum shell as well as 'glass. Make sure you bolt through the aluminum tube frame of the shell. I didn't have them, but wish I'd had the "fully-opening-from-the-outside side windows". Now my kayak rig is a 93 Dodge Grand Caravan. The ultimate kayak rig. maybe not the ultimate whitewater shuttle rig (sometimes ground clearance and 4wd are keys here), it's the ultimate surf and sea kayak rig. Plenty of room to sleep in the back, seats 2, 3, 4, 5, or 7, depending on which seats you install or remove, rear heat and air, and a much lower roofline than 4wd pickups and SUV's. Room to carry long paddles inside. Room to change inside. Raingutters!!! Shawn __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jan 16 2003 - 08:40:54 PST
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